All the cool sidekicks were doing it...

So it turns out that Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes wasn't the only young Invader to come under the control of the Russians after World War II.



In this 1953 story called "The Return of the Human Torch," original android Torch Jim Hammond returns from the apparently-dead to discover that his own young partner had undergone a similar fate. This being the Golden(or was it Silver by then?) age, Toro was back to his old self in under two pages.